A series of monoprints using appropriated imagery, collage, relief and intaglio.

There are ideal situations, and what is an ideal situation is an extremely subjective thing. When I began working on this series, I was attempting to span the distance between my day to day reality, and a perfect state that may never be realized. It is a territory riddled with possibilities, dead ends, and false starts. Neil Young describes it well in his song, On the Beach:

I need a crowd of people,
but I can't face them
day to day.
Though my problems
are meaningless,
that don't make them
go away.

There are contradictions and compromises everywhere-it is as if our needs and desires run parallel with our lives but never fully meet. Only through stories and imagined scenarios can they have a life of their own.